Ingredients for Rotisserie Chicken

Series Summary

Chicken can be one of the most elegant, or plain, meats to serve at a meal. Because of its relatively muted flavor, chicken is a versatile meat, allowing the cook, chef or connoisseur-du-jour to add it to just about any dish with a safe assurance that it will impart its protein-filled goodness and soft, chewy texture, but absorb the flavors that surround it. Of the most common meats consumed, chicken might be considered the “jack of all trades.”

Chicken is such a popular meat to eat because of a few things. Chickens are relatively easy to raise in large numbers, avian flu aside. Chicken meat can be separated, packaged and shipped, or chickens can be plucked and shipped whole. Chicken is good for sandwiches, salads, pasta dishes, as a main course; it can be shredded, sliced, fried, served oven-roasted, rotisserie-style—the possibilities are too numerous to list here.

In this free video series, learn how to make rotisserie chicken. This easy recipe is delicious and incredibly easy. Learn how to wash and season a chicken. Our expert, Scott Gottfried, shows you how to operate a rotisserie machine, and he gives you tips for cooking your chicken to perfection. So, if you are looking for a delicious chicken meal, learn how to make rotisserie chicken today!

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Scott for Expert Village and today I'm going to teach you how to make a rotisserie chicken. Let's look at some of our ingredients that we need to get started. First and foremost, the most important thing you need is to buy a whole chicken from the supermarket. You can get them from the butcher section or back by the meat department. I got the store brand. It's usually a little bit cheaper. It's about 3 dollars or 4 dollars. You have to make sure it comes with the giblets so you get all these healthy proteins that you know you love. That's the chicken part that we need. Another important part that we're going to need of course is to have some of our flavors for this that we can stuff inside of the chicken. Right here is I have a whole bunch of scallions. You can get these also at the supermarket or anywhere else that they sell these types of ingredients. Just a whole bunch. We're going to cut them up. Make sure you wash them first and they should be good. Also, we're going to need a whole clove of garlic, so you can pick that up also at the supermarket. The clove of garlic will add that essential flavoring that we all come to love over these years. We can leave that unpeeled for right now because we'll get to that once we start cooking. Another ingredient that we need of course is to have an onion here. We're going to cut this in half and only use half of it to put inside of the chicken for more flavor. We're going to mix it the scallions and the garlic."